Lisa Mugo Tanzanian singer Rayvanny, has revealed that he paid a whooping $556,268 in order for him to terminate his contract with Diamond Platnumz’s Wasafi Records. The revelation came during an online feud between the BET award winner and singer Harmonize, who was his former signee. According to Rayvanny, Harmonize always complains about how he paid Diamond $256,739 yet he paid […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has placed a blanket ban on travel abroad for Members of Parliament and civil servants in a bid to save money for other priority sectors. While commissioning facilities at Uganda Petroleum Institute-Kigumba (UPIK) in Kiryandongo District on Saturday, Mr Museveni was unhappy to learn that the institute does not […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A move to set up the East African Monetary Institute –the Central Bank of East Africa—will be made this year, a significant establishment required in implementing a single currency regime. According to East African Community (EAC) Secretary-General Dr Peter Mathuki said the Council of Ministers is set to plan on the location of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Elon Musk’s satellite internet firm, Starlink, has publicised plans to launch in Kenya in the second quarter of this year. This move marks the company’s expansion into the African market and is part of Starlink’s mission to provide internet access to remote and underserved areas around the world. At the moment, Kenyans can […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tanzanian schools have begun, this month, to adopt English as the compulsory medium of instruction. The directive was issued by Benjamin Oganga, an officer attached to the Ministry of Education. “We’ve banned the use of Swahili in all our secondary schools. We need to ensure our students understand and are able to use […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The new year started off on a high note for Africa’s second richest man Johann Rupert, following the $400 million financial bump he experienced in the first week of 2023. This is a welcomed development considering that the billionaire experienced a loss of $1.09 billion in 2022, resulting from a downturn in the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Kenya LGBTQ+ activist whose body was found last week in a trunk was smothered, with socks found in his mouth, a state pathologist said Wednesday after an autopsy. The body of Edwin Chiloba, a 25-year-old designer and model, was found on January 4 in a trunk on the side of the road […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda’s latest Ebola virus outbreak is over, the government and the World Health Organization has announced. Health Minister Ruth Aceng, speaking to journalists said that no new cases had been registered in the past 42 days. This outbreak was the first in a decade of the less common Sudan strain which, unlike the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta For years, sexual abuse and exploitation of children has taken place in secrecy due to the shame and stigma some communities attach to it, allowing the crimes to prosper. Annually, over 400 million children around the globe are exposed to child sexual exploitation and abuse, according to a new report by Economist Impact. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Now and then an artefact or two is returned to Africa in a bid to show remorse for the egregious theft levels that defined the colonial era, but this is barely enough to wipe away the damage that had been wrought on the affected regions. Hoarded African treasures, still demonstrate a pattern of […]
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